Chapter 424 Sentencing and Misunderstandings

Chapter 424 Sentencing and Misunderstandings

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Lewis nearly nodded on instinct–but something in Victor’s tone stopped him cold. He shook his head frantically. “Nope, I’m not curious. Not even a little. Absolutely not.”

Oh god, had he said something wrong again?

Why did Victor’s voice sound even more dangerous than before?

Forget it. He was swearing off talking altogether. This mouth of his was going to get him killed.

“I swear I wasn’t curious about you, Victor. I was curious if I was any good.”

He needed to leave. Immediately.

“I just remembered–I didn’t get all the answers from that guy last night. I should go question him again.”

And without waiting for a reply, Silas bolted.

He vowed: from now on, if Lewis was in the same room as the boss, he was staying far away. This was a high–risk zone. One

wrong

word and boom–collateral damage.

Victor turned his eyes on Lewis.

Lewis blinked. “Want me to help Silas? I could go interrogate too?”

He was desperate to escape.

The air pressure alone was enough to make his heart flutter like a dying bird.

Victor calmly lit a cigarette. “What’s your relationship with Eddie?”

“Uh… no relationship at all?” Lewis blinked. “We’re not close.”

What kind of question was this? He and Eddie had practically nothing in common.

think you

“…We’re not brothers.”

“You could be.”

Lewis’s brain short–circuited.

be?What did that

or weren’t–what was this middle–ground

a few days. You’ll go

just like that, Lewis’s world

Silas about how brutal that desert

had predicted this. And he hadn’t said

don’t want to go

didn’t even register the

thought Victor was just suggesting a

Victor’s stare sharpened.

Silence fell.

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424 Sentencing

Lewis chuckled nervously. “Victor?”

smoke. “Why did

let this

“Uh…

“Right.

redeeming quality. Otherwise, there

Tessa stirred and rolled over–right off

the floor hard, the impact

was always a wild

the house staff had a daily task: clean and reconstruct her

was when she lay down, by morning the sheets would be in a

Bleary–eyed, she looked around.

A strange room?

Where…?

She remembered

“Eh?”

Where was the patient?

raging fever last

She panicked.

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